Wold vs Null - What's the difference?
wold | null |
An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
(obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland
* Byron
* Tennyson
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between wold and null
is that wold is an unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.wold
English
Noun
(en noun)- And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied.
- The wind that beats the mountain, blows / More softly round the open wold .
Usage notes
* Used in many English place-names, always hilly tracts of land. * Wald'' (German) is a cognate, but a false friend because it retains the original meaning of ''forest .Derived terms
* Cotswolds * (Lincolnshire Wolds) * wolder * (Yorkshire Wolds)References
* OED 2nd edition 1989 ----null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.